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HAIRNET
Definition of HAIRNET
noun
A net designed to keep hair up and out of the way, e.g. while cooking.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From hair + net. Compare Dutch haarnetje, German Haarnetz, Danish hårnet, Swedish hårnät.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, HAIRNET · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, German, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HAIRNET in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 15 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 79, 7 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 79, 7 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HAIRNET starts with H and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AEHINRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found HAIRNET?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 79 - and most players walked straight past it.
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